February 3, 2010
"The question of the archive is not a question of the past. It is not the question of a concept dealing with the past that might already be at our disposal. An archivable concept of the archive. It is a question of the future, the question of the future itself, the question of a response, of a promise, and of a responsibility for tomorrow. The archive, if we want to know what that will have meant, we will only know in times to come; not tomorrow, but in times to come. Later on, or perhaps never."

— Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever, University of Chicago Press, 1996 (via butterflyhunt)

12:54pm  |   URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/368708578
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FILED UNDER: memory history philosophy 
January 12, 2010
CfP: 2nd Global Conference: Digital Memories (March 2010: Salzburg, Austria)

This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with the issues and implications created by massive exploitation of digital technologies for inter-human communication and examine how online users form, archive and de-/code their memories in cybermedia environment, and how the systems used for production influence the way the users perceive and work with the memory. In particular the conference will encourage equally theoretical and practical debates which surround the cultural contexts of memory co-/production, re-/mediation, en-/decoding, dissemination, personal/mass interpretation and preservation.

Papers, presentations, workshops and reports are invited on any of the following themes:

1. Digital Personal and Community Memory
Theories and Concepts of Memory. The Digitisation of Individual and Community Memory. Identifying Key Features and Issues.

2. Externalization and Mediation of Memories
Memory Metaphors in the Digital Age. Web 2.0 Services as a Medium for Production/Dissemination of Memory. Representational Principles for Memory Recording.

3. Memories and Cybercultures
Social Networking and Fan Cultures. New Media Arts and Memory.

4. Memory and Inter-Culturalism
Expatriate, Dissent and Emigrant Cultures and Communities Online.

5. Memory and Technology
The Memory of Digital Media and Systems. The Memory Infrastructures and the User Response.

6. Emergent Technologies for Memory Capturing
The Spatialization of Memories in Virtual Worlds. Prototyping Tools for Digital Autobiographic and Biographic Productions. Experimental Interfaces.

7. Archiving and Dissemination of Memory Data
Digital Data Recording. Memory Restoring and Preservation Strategies. Digital Libraries and Archives as a Community Memory. Database Structuring, Data Retrieval and Usage. User Response and Modelling.

8. Uses of New Media for Production of Historical Knowledge
National Identity and Memory in the Digital Age. Political Uses of Cybermedia for Historical Revisionism.

9. Specific Research on Community Memory
Social Issues Research. Online Ethnographic Research. Privacy and Legal Issues in Community Informatics.

6:43pm  |   URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/330886913
FILED UNDER: memory network media technology internet 
December 9, 2009
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

The Cranberries - Will You Remember?

1:00am  |   URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/275338608
FILED UNDER: music memory 
December 4, 2009
"We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support. In this way, by using the old beams and driftwood the ship can be shaped entirely anew, but only by gradual reconstruction."

—

Otto Neurath

via wildcat2030

2:54pm  |   URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/269087310
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FILED UNDER: philosophy psychology history memory 
November 11, 2009
the (flightless) birds. this triggers a distinct memory of texting someone in beirut about watching hitchcock’s birds in nyc after that person had texted about listening to a costello song i was into & thinking of me. isn’t this networked, intertextual, cross-temporal highbrow/lowbrow meshwork of affectivity wonderful? and like, really really privileged? cute pic :) via blackandwtf + happyphototeam

the (flightless) birds. this triggers a distinct memory of texting someone in beirut about watching hitchcock’s birds in nyc after that person had texted about listening to a costello song i was into & thinking of me. isn’t this networked, intertextual, cross-temporal highbrow/lowbrow meshwork of affectivity wonderful? and like, really really privileged?

cute pic :)

via blackandwtf + happyphototeam

12:08am  |   URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/239618147
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FILED UNDER: memory stories me media lebanon nyc photography 
November 6, 2009
the internet was real pile of **** in 1996

via @brainpicker

10:37pm  |   URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/235331985
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FILED UNDER: internet history memory graphics 
October 27, 2009
27 October: World Day for Audiovisual Heritage

8:16pm  |   URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/225146145
FILED UNDER: history media memory culture 
October 27, 2009
"Why Back Up? Because they don’t care about you."

— Archive Team

12:06am  |   URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/224303300
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FILED UNDER: internet memory history philosophy capitalism 
October 27, 2009
From geociti.es: “Late, lamented Geocities. A provider of free web hosting since 1994, it grew to be the third most browsed site on the internet, before being bought by Yahoo! in 1999. From there, it was rebranded, shifted around, and ultimately met its demise in October of 2009. Upon hearing of this, a band of people calling themselves Archive Team spent months downloading copies of as many Geocities sites as they could, and will be doing their best to make sure this history will be saved for as long as possible.” (via inky igather)

From geociti.es: “Late, lamented Geocities. A provider of free web hosting since 1994, it grew to be the third most browsed site on the internet, before being bought by Yahoo! in 1999. From there, it was rebranded, shifted around, and ultimately met its demise in October of 2009. Upon hearing of this, a band of people calling themselves Archive Team spent months downloading copies of as many Geocities sites as they could, and will be doing their best to make sure this history will be saved for as long as possible.” (via inky igather)

12:04am  |   URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/224300683
(No. OF NOTES: 22)
  
FILED UNDER: history internet memory culture 
October 25, 2009
From Class to Nation: Left, Right, & the Ideological & Institutional Roots of Post-Communist "National Socialism"

East European Politics & Societies, Vol. 17, No. 3, 359-392 (2003)

10:45pm  |   URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/223172476
FILED UNDER: communism nationalism ideology history russia media memory art politics 
October 24, 2009
Wow… Facebook is actually suggesting I “reconnect” with people: “Write on her wall,” the ghostly light spelled out softly, righteously. This is my Godhead’s face: suggestion_type=write_on_wall—6&list_location=pie_home_page&event_type=write_on_wall_click All praises to thee. “After years of waiting, nothing came.” suggestion_type=getoff_my_case_getoff_my_case > RT @jessedarling @MXML We didn’t lose our faith after all; just returned to a more polytheistic etherized dreamtime in which meta4 is law > We had “moral” codes on why to be a certain way. Now we have algorithms too. This is not a lament. It’s the mechanisms laid bare.

Wow… Facebook is actually suggesting I “reconnect” with people: “Write on her wall,” the ghostly light spelled out softly, righteously. This is my Godhead’s face:

suggestion_type=write_on_wall—6&list_location=pie_home_page&event_type=write_on_wall_click

All praises to thee.

“After years of waiting, nothing came.”

suggestion_type=getoff_my_case_getoff_my_case

> RT @jessedarling @MXML We didn’t lose our faith after all; just returned to a more polytheistic etherized dreamtime in which meta4 is law

> We had “moral” codes on why to be a certain way. Now we have algorithms too. This is not a lament. It’s the mechanisms laid bare.

2:28pm  |   URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/221799446
FILED UNDER: internet facebook society culture me philosophy memory love 
September 24, 2009
tiny truths via loveyourchaos

tiny truths

via loveyourchaos

8:33am  |   URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/195620257
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FILED UNDER: graphics philosophy memory 
September 18, 2009
Identity, memory, death and the internet @ Dave’s Educational Blog

“Thoughtful and moving post by Dave Cormier about how our identity will exist after our passing” via nogoodreason

4:49pm  |   URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/191057340
FILED UNDER: memory internet 
September 17, 2009

“suleimankhan2003 (1 day ago)

If fighting for the cause of one’s nation, for the cause of survival and for the cause of your compatriots is called a murderer than yes I was a Murderer and a great one of them all.

Though I come from a far distance (Afghanistan) than where he was but you won’t believe it that it was the US who thought us about the bravery of him and his willing to die for his country when we were fighting Soviets, and now he is a murderer!

…Viva la Commandante El Che…”

Interesting comment on Nathalie Cardone - Che Guevara [YouTube], a video called ‘bonkers’ by @charlottecook; I must admit, the deification of Che & the sexuality of Cardone’s performance is a little off-putting, but the only thing I find bonkers is the broad-brush belittlement of a man and a struggle that’s inspired people all over the world for decades. As another half-Christ once said, religion may be an opiate, but it’s also  ‘the sigh of the oppressed’.

5:29pm  |   URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/190297451
FILED UNDER: politics religion ideology resistance history memory 
September 9, 2009
"If you don’t know your history it’s as if you were born yesterday."

—

Howard Zinn

via azspot + igather

5:33pm  |   URL: http://micro.maximalis.me/post/183762324
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FILED UNDER: memory history